Emma Thompson (Angel) won the Best Actress Academy Award® for "Howard's
End" and the Oscar® for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from
Another Medium for "Sense and Sensibility," for which she was also nominated
as Best Actress. In 1994, she received two Oscar(r) nominations and two
Golden Globe nominations, both for Best Actress, in "The Remains of the Day"
and for Best Supporting Actress in "In the Name of the Father." She won the
London Film Critics Circle Best Actress Award for both "The Remains of the
Day" and "Much Ado About Nothing." Her Golden Globe wins include Best
Screenplay for "Sense and Sensibility" and Best Actress for "Howard's End,"
as well as acting nominations for "Sense and Sensibility," "Junior" and HBO's
"Wit." Her critically acclaimed performance in "Wit" garnered an Emmy®
nomination as well as a SAG Award nomination, and the film went on to win the
Emmy® for Outstanding Made For Television Movie. Along with Mike Nichols,
she won the 2001 Humanitas Prize for the screenplay for "Wit," which also
received an Emmy® nomination. Thompson's other films include the upcoming
Richard Curtis romantic comedy, "Love Actually" and Christopher Hampton's
"Imagining Argentina," along with the films "Maybe Baby," "Judas Kiss,"
"Primary Colors," "The Winter Guest," "The Blue Boy," "Carrington," "Peter's
Friends," "Dead Again," "Impromptu," "Henry V," "Treasure Planet" (animated)
and "The Tall Guy." She won an Emmy® for Outstanding Guest Actress in a
Comedy Series for "Ellen."